Hello! It’s the 2020 pandemic and our physical location is CLOSED. But we are still selling books! If you live in the greater Cambridge, Watertown, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, Waltham, Belmont, or Lexington area, we will deliver them to your mailbox or front porch for FREE! We are also willing to ship you books. Contact us via email, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or call 617-492-6763. (If you have to leave a message, we’ll get back to you.) You can also check our Instagram and Twitter pages for times when Tony will be in the store fielding calls. Status reports go out on our mailing list, here. You can buy a gift certificate via PayPal to blanton7772000@yahoo.com (but please DO NOT email that address). We are fundraising via classes for kids (scroll down or click here). We will let you know when we can do curbside pick-up again or when we might open our doors.
Category Archives: May
Comix Creation Classes for Kids! May 2020
Jason Wiser will AGAIN be running his Intro to Comix Creation ONLINE class for kids next week, Monday, 11 May 2020 through Friday, 15 May 2020 from 3-4pm. COMIX CREATION ONLINE LEVEL 2 WILL BE THE WEEK AFTER, 18-22 May 2020, also from 3-4pm! Jason’s website for the class is here: http://www.yayaplay.com/classes.html
- Intro to Comix Creation LEVEL 1
- For ages 8+
- $50 per household – NOT per child! If you have one child or seven, it’s still $50!
- Monday, 5/11 through Friday, 5/15 at 3pm
- All your child needs is a pencil and paper!
- Please provide your email address (for the URL to connect you and your child to the class; no special software is needed) as well as the first name(s) and the age(s) of your child (or children) and whether it’s LEVEL 1, LEVEL 2, or BOTH!
- You’ll receive the link by 2:30pm on Monday, before class starts
Payment can be made via PayPal to blanton7772000@yahoo.com (but please DO NOT email that address; please DO put your email address and the names/ages of your child/children in the “Add a note” section AND whether you are signing up for Level 1, Level 2, or BOTH!) or on the phone with a credit card (our number is 617-492-6763). Since we’re not in the shop on a regular basis during the current stay-at-home order, if you need to do a credit card transaction, email us at millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com or leave us a voice message with your phone number and a good time to call so that Tony Davis, owner of the MYP, can call you back. (I promise, we’re working on an e-commerce solution.) PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL US YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
ABOUT THE TEACHER:
Jason Wiser is a Harvard Instructor of Comics, Animation, and Game Development. His comics work has been published in the Boston Globe, his animation has appeared on the Disney TV show “Greek” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his published games include the award-winning cooperative card game for kids “Monsters in the Elevator” (www.YayaPlay.com/MITE).
PLEASE SHARE THIS AROUND! Even if you don’t have kids, your friends might be interested! Jason is kindly letting us keep the proceeds of this venture to raise money for the shop while we’re all practicing social distancing.
Some New Arrivals for the Week of 3 May 2020
Friends and neighbors! We are still getting books! Here is a sample of NINE new books we received in the past week. There will be more soon! If you live in the greater Cambridge/Watertown/Arlington/Medford/Somerville/Waltham area, we will deliver them to your mailbox or front porch for free! We are also willing to ship you books. Contact us via email, millionyearpicnic@yahoo.com, or call 617-492-6763. (If you have to leave a message, we’ll get back to you.)
Catwad Me Three – The third volume of Jim Benton’s humor series for young readers.
Catwad, the snarky blue furball with a funny take on just about everything, is back in this third graphic novel in an all-new series from New York Times-bestselling author Jim Benton! Catwad and Blurmp are back and ready for more adventures in this newest volume in which they meet new friends, try out yoga (spoiler alert: Catwad hates it), and more! It’s a laugh-out-loud romp not to be missed, even if Catwad claims otherwise.
Ms. Marvel vol 2: Stormranger by Saladin Ahmed & Joey Vazquez.
Collects Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #7-12. Kamala Khan really needs a break – but things don’t work like that for Ms. Marvel! Kamala’s road trip with Zoe and Nakia gets derailed by literal corporate zombies! The villainous Monopoly has set his sights on our magnificent hero – and his new recruits Discord and Lockdown are more than happy to deliver Ms. Marvel on a silver platter! And when disaster strikes Kamala’s family, she and Bruno are drawn closer together than ever before. Are these two best friends about to become something more? Or will Kamala’s duties as Ms. Marvel come between them? Plus: Doctor Strange’s skills are needed while Kamala tries to stop Mister Hyde’s rampage through Jersey City. With her new suit, she may just have the power needed – but does it come with a terrible cost?
The City We Became is a brand new novel by N.K. Jemisin, 3-time Hugo winner for the Broken Earth trilogy and writer for DC Comics Far Sector series. We are taking special orders for prose fiction and nonfiction as well as graphic novels!
Phoebe & Her Unicorn vol 11: Camping with Unicorns by Dana Simpson
School’s out, so Phoebe and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, have the entire summer to play games, visit the pool, and even go camping. Unicorn horns are excellent utensils for roasting things over the campfire, too, even if Marigold prefers toasted apples to s’mores. While exploring in the woods, Phoebe and friends meet a unicorn named Alabaster, who uses a special video game console that’s powered by plants. Throughout her summer adventures, Phoebe learns that being cool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and that it’s much better to be your true self. It’s all part of the unforgettable experience of Camping with Unicorns.
New middle-grade graphic novel from Scholastic, Nat Enough. First volume in a new series by cartoonist Maria Scrivan introduces Natalie on her first day of middle school as she attempts to overcome her insecurities and navigate this new world. “…gentle and timeless.” –Publishers Weekly. With expressive, comic strip-style art.
Making friends isn’t easy, but losing them is even harder! Natalie has never felt that she’s enough. Athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought; now she’s not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is rather than who she isn’t, then she might realize she’s more than enough, just the way she is.
From award-winning French cartoonist Blutch, collecting a diverse array of short stories from the mid-1990s, translated into English for the first time by Matt Madden. And, yes, one sort story features a shape-shifting Robert Mitchum.
A star of French comics imagines America – its movie stars, its history, its fashion – in these tantalizing graphic short stories about everything from love to, yes, the actor Robert Mitchum. Blutch is one of the most inventive storytellers in comics, and nothing reveals it like Mitchum. Serialized and collected in the mid-90s and never before available in English, this is Blutch at his most wide-ranging: from Puritan fever dreams to an encounter with a shape-shifting Robert Mitchum, Blutch builds stories out of his dreams, visions of America, and anything else he can get his hands on.
Camp Spirt, a brand new 200+ page graphic novel by Axelle Lenoir. Cool-looking, vividly-colorful take on summer camp with some language and situations that make it more of a teen/adult read. Published by Top Shelf.
Summer, 1994. With just two months left before college, Elodie is forced by her mother to take a job as a camp counselor. She doesn’t know the first thing about nature, or sports, or kids for that matter, and isn’t especially interested in learning… but now she’s responsible for a foul-mouthed horde of girls who just might win her over. But just as Elodie starts getting used to her new environment-and close to one of the other counselors-a dark mystery lurking around the camp begins to haunt her dreams.
Art of Junji Ito: Twisted Visions. Already sold out! But we’re getting more!
A first-ever collection of Junji Ito’s artworks, featuring over 130 images from his bestselling manga titles along with rare works. This sublime collection includes all of Ito’s unforgettable illustrations in both black-and-white and color, from Tomie’s dreadful beauty to the inhuman spirals of Uzumaki. Includes an interview focused on Ito’s art technique as well as commentary from the artist on each work.
Eat And Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo (Love Is Love)
For fans of Seconds and Wet Moon! Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers a magic chocolate bar that will give her a chance to revisit her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present, and just as important, a way to treat herself with love and kindness, at any size? Join the incredible creative duo of writer/artist Sweeney Boo (Marvel Action: Captain Marvel) and writer Lylian (Ellana) on a journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and just a bit of magic.
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 29 May 2019
No shortages!!!
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 29 May 2019
AGE OF X-MAN X-TREMISTS #4 (OF 5)
ALL TIME COMICS SEASON ONE TP
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #22
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #252 FACSIMILE EDITION NEW Printing
AMBER BLAKE #3
ANGEL #1
ARCHIE AT RIVERDALE HIGH TP VOL 02
ARCHIE JUMBO COMICS DIGEST #299
ASCENDER #2 (MR)
BATMAN LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH #1 (OF 3) (MR)
BERNIE WRIGHTSON ARTIFACT ED HC NEW Printing
BEZIMENA HC (A)
BLACK MAGICK HAWTHORNE CAT T-Shirt XXL
BLACK PANTHER #12
BLACK SCIENCE #40 (MR)
BLASTOSAURUS TP VOL 01 (Offered Again)
BLOSSOMS 666 #4
CATWOMAN ANNUAL #1
CHI SWEET ADVENTURES GN VOL 04
CODA #12 (OF 12)
COPRA TP VOL 03 (MR) NEW Edition
DAREDEVIL #6
DAREDEVIL TP FEARLESS ORIGINS
DARK RED #3
DC PREVIEWS #14 JUNE 2019
DC SUPERHERO GIRLS SPACED OUT TP
DEATH ORB TP VOL 01
DEPT H OMNIBUS TP VOL 01
DETECTIVE COMICS ANNUAL #2
DICK TRACY FOREVER #2
DOCTOR WHO 13TH #8
DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #538
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER #1
DOOMSDAY CLOCK #10 (OF 12)
FANTASTIC FOUR #10 WR
FIGHT CLUB 3 #5 (MR)
FLASH BY MARK WAID TP BOOK 06
FORGOTTEN QUEEN #4 (OF 4)
FOUR SISTERS TP VOL 02 HORTENSE
GIANT MAN #2 (OF 3)
GLEIPNIR GN VOL 02 (MR)
GOON BUNCH OF OLD CRAP TP VOL 01
GRUNT HC ART AND UNPUBLISHED COMICS OF JAMES STOKO
HELLBOY VS LOBSTER JOHNSON RING OF DEATH
HEROES IN CRISIS #9 (OF 9)
ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #64
IMMORTAL HULK #1 5TH Printing
IMMORTAL HULK #18
IMMORTAL HULK #2 5TH Printing
IMMORTAL HULK #3 4TH Printing
IMMORTAL HULK #6 4TH Printing
IMMORTAL HULK #7 3RD Printing
INCREDIBLE HULK #181 FACSIMILE EDITION NEW Printing
JUDGE DREDD TOXIC TP
KILLER GROOVE #1
KIRBY IS FANTASTIC HC KING SIZE
LIFE IS STRANGE #5 (MR)
LIFE ON THE MOON HC
LITTLE BIRD #1 (OF 5) 3RD Printing (MR)
LUMBERJANES SOMEWHERE GREEN #1
MAGNIFICENT MS MARVEL #3
MAJOR X #4 (OF 6)
MARVEL ACTION CLASSICS SPIDER-MAN TWO IN ONE #1
MARVEL PREVIEWS VOL 04 #23 JUNE 2019
MARVEL RISING #3 (OF 5)
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #39
MOON FACE GN HC NEW Edition (MR)
MY LITTLE PONY NIGHTMARE KNIGHTS TP
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 #6
PARADOX GIRL TP VOL 01
PETER CANNON THUNDERBOLT #5
POP ROCKS RICK JAMES VINYL FIGURE
PREVIEWS #369 JUNE 2019
PRINCELESS BOOK 8 PRINCESSES #3
PROS AND (COMIC) CONS TP
PUNISHER TP VOL 02 WAR IN BAGALIA
PUNK MAMBO #2 (OF 5)
RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS TP VOL 02
RING OF SEVEN WORLDS GN TP
SAGA DLX ED HC VOL 03 (MR)
SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 141 DDOUBLE Z DEATH ON ICE
SHAZAM THE WORLDS MIGHTIEST MORTAL HC VOL 01
SHE SAID DESTROY #1
SMOOTH CRIMINALS #6 (OF 12)
SPIDER-MAN CITY AT WAR #3 (OF 6)
SPIDER-MAN NOIR COMPLETE COLLECTION TP
SPIDER-MAN VS MYSTERIO TP
STAR TREK YEAR FIVE #2
STAR WARS ORIG MARVEL YRS #108
STAR WARS VADER DARK VISIONS #4 (OF 5)
STEVEN UNIVERSE ONGOING #28
STRANGER THINGS SIX #1
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #6
SUPERMAN LEVIATHAN RISING SPECIAL #1
THANOS #2 (OF 6)
THIS WAS OUR PACT GN
THOR #13 WR
TMNT ONGOING #94
TRUE BELIEVERS SPIDER-MAN KRAVENS LAST HUNT #1
UNCLE SCROOGE #45
US JUDGE DREDD COMP CASE FILES TP VOL 16 (S&S ED)
WALK THROUGH HELL #10 (MR)
WAR OF REALMS SPIDER-MAN & LEAGUE OF REALMS #2
WHITE SNAKE SC
WILD STORM #23
WOLVERINE LONG NIGHT ADAPTATION #5 (OF 5)
WORN TUFF ELBOW #2 (Offered Again)
WORST BOOK EVER HC
X-23 #12
X-FORCE TP VOL 01 SINS OF PAST
X-MEN GRAND DESIGN X-TINCTION #1 (OF 2)
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(A) = Adult Readers
GN = Graphic Novel
HC = Hardcover
(MR) = Mature Readers
OGN = Original Graphic Novel (never released as issues)
SC = Softcover
TP = Trade Paperback
YR = Young Reader
Thank you!
Million Year Picnic
99 MT Auburn ST downstairs
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-492-6763
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Shortages
ROLLED AND TOLD #9
URUSEI YATSURA GN VOL 02
WAR OF REALMS NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS #2 (OF 4)
Delayed by Diamond
LORNA TP (MR)
Weekly Shiplist for Wednesday, 22 May 2019
2019 FAN EXPO BOSTON COMIC PREVIEW #1
ACTION COMICS #1011
AGE OF X-MAN AMAZING NIGHTCRAWLER #4 (OF 5)
ANIMOSITY #21 (MR)
ASGARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #9 WR
ASSASSIN NATION #3 (MR)
AVANT-GUARDS #5 (OF 12)
AVANT-GUARDS TP VOL 01 DISCOVER NOW Edition PX
AVENGERS #19
BACK ISSUE #113
BATGIRL #35
BATMAN BEYOND #32
BLACK BADGE HC VOL 01
BLACK MAGICK HAWTHORNE CAT T-Shirt SMALL-XL
BOOKS OF MAGIC #8 (MR)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER TP VOL 01
CAPTAIN MARVEL LOGO PEWTER LAPEL PIN
CASE CLOSED GN VOL 70
CATALYST PRIME SUMMIT TP VOL 03 TRUTH CONSEQUENCES
CHAMPIONS GN TP WE STILL NEED HEROES
CLUE CANDLESTICK #1
COVER TP VOL 01 (MR)
DETECTIVE COMICS #1004
DIAL H FOR HERO #3 (OF 6)
DOCTOR STRANGE #14
DOCTOR WHO 13TH TP VOL 01
EAST OF WEST TP VOL 09
FAITHLESS #2 (OF 5) (MR)
FAMOUS MONSTERS ACK-IVES #1 GODZILLA
FANTASTIC FOUR TP BEHOLD GALACTUS
FANTASTIC FOUR TP VOL 02 MR AND MRS GRIMM
FIRST LEGION OF UTOPIA GN
FLASH #71
FREEDOM FIGHTERS #6 (OF 12)
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #262
GOON #2
HELLBOY ENAMEL PIN SET
HIGHWAYMAN TP
HILDA & NOWHERE SPACE NETFLIX TIE IN NOVEL
INVADER ZIM #43
INVISIBLE KINGDOM #3
JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #76
JAMES BOND BLACKBOX TP
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #11
KINIRO MOSAIC GN VOL 09
LEGEND OF KORRA TP PART 01 RUINS OF EMPIRE
LIFE IS STRANGE T-SHIRT COVER PACK (MR)
LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #42
MANFRIED SAVES THE DAY GN (MR)
MARTIAN MANHUNTER #5 (OF 12)
MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #5
MARVEL KAWAII CAPTAIN AMERICA PIN
MARVEL KAWAII IRON MAN PIN
MATADOR TP VOL 01 (MR)
MEAT & BONE GN (MR)
MIDDLEWEST #7 (MR)
MIDDLEWEST TP BOOK 01 (MR)
MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN #6
MONSTRESS #22 (MR)
MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR #43 WR
MR AND MRS X #11
QUINCREDIBLE VOL 01 QUEST TO BE BEST
RED ULTRAMARINE HC (MR)
REDLANDS TP VOL 02 (MR)
REDNECK #20 (MR)
RIVERDALE SEASON 3 #3
ROAD OF BONES #1
RUMBLE #12 (MR)
RUNAWAYS #21
SANDMAN TP VOL 08 WORLDS END 30TH ANNIV ED (MR)
SAVAGE DRAGON #244 (MR)
SCOOBY APOCALYPSE TP VOL 05
SHINING BEACON TP
SHURI #8
SILENCER #17
SIMAK HC
SPECTACLE GN VOL 02
SPIDER-MAN TP SINISTER SIX
STAR TREK Q CONFLICT #4 (OF 6)
STAR WARS AOR JABBA THE HUTT #1
STAR WARS GALAXYS EDGE #2 (OF 5)
TERRIBLE MEANS GN
TERRIFICS #16
TOKYO SWEET GWENDOLINE SC (MR)
TONY STARK IRON MAN #11
TRIP TO TOP O/T VOLCANO WITH MOUSE HC
TRUE BELIEVERS IRON FIST MISTY KNIGHT #1
UNSTOPPABLE WASP #8
VENOM #14 WR
WAGE SLAVES GN (MR)
WAR OF REALMS JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #3 (OF 5) WR
WAR OF REALMS PUNISHER #2 (OF 3) WR
WAR OF REALMS STRIKEFORCE LAND OF GIANTS #1 WR
WAR OF REALMS UNCANNY X-MEN #2 (OF 3) WR
WARNING #7 (MR)
WOLVERINE INFINITY WATCH #4 (OF 5)
WONDER WOMAN #71
X-FORCE #8
YELLOW YELLOW HC
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(A) = Adult Readers
GN = Graphic Novel
HC = Hardcover
(MR) = Mature Readers
OGN = Original Graphic Novel (never released as issues)
SC = Softcover
TP = Trade Paperback
YR = Young Reader
Thank you!
Million Year Picnic
99 MT Auburn ST downstairs
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-492-6763